European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday june 27.1987 fatal plane crash causes inferno a photo fire i ten Battle a in urm Bint Early Friday morning after two engine plane crashed in bos ton s Dorchester Section killing at least vat person and destroying three Homes officials said. The deed person wis believed to be the Pilot two people from one of the Homes were missing and to least three in pm were injured. The plane was flying to Boston s Logon International Airport from new York. Energy chief says will mean big fuel Washington a dramatic fuel efficiency gains for cars 1o 60 to 75 Miles per gallon Are coming with the maturing of Ceramic Turbine engines in the next decade. Energy Secretary John Herington said thursday. Herrington called such engines the most startling thing i be seen in the Energy department s laboratories. Speaking to an Energy conference organized by the global strategy Council an organization backed by prominent conservatives to promote a coherent and Long term global strategy Herrington said the depart ment had the Best engine in the world. We have a better engine than the  Japan however is ahead in the difficult and so far a mastered manufacturing techniques and the depart ment Hopes future joint research Wili Benefit both countries be said. Many Industry analysts have counted Japan ahead in the race to build Ceramic engines. Some japanese manufacturers already Are using Ceramic parts such As Turbo career Blades and diesel pre combustion Cham Bers and Buzz has said it is aiming at a fully Ceramic diesel in 1990. Ceramic engines achieve efficiency through opera Ceramic engine savings for cars lion without a Cooling system at far higher tempera Tures than metallic engines and the department and engine manufacturers have been  them for More than a decade. The drawback has been costly manufacturing and extreme fragility because ceramics Are Brittle. An Ordinary gasoline engine typically transforms Only about one sixth of the Energy in its fuel into useful work and a diesel engine about one Quarter. Ceramic engines by the mid-1990s or late 1990sare clearly going to be unique. They la be turbines they la run on just about anything Herrington said. More than 50 percent of Petroleum products in the United slates goes to transportation fuel and in creased efficiency would reduce dependence on imported oils. Many conservation organizations claim that a fuel efficiency average of 30 mpg for vehicle nationwide instead of the current 1 8 mpg. Would eliminate the need for both imports and Oil exploration in environmentally sensitive areas. Prompted by the 1973 Arab Oil embargo and result ing shortages Congress in 1975 required manufacturers and importers to gradually raise new Caj mileage then about 13 mpg to 27.5 mpg. Last year the Reagan administration used discretionary authority to reduce the Standard to 26 mpg. Stateside Man sets himself on fire Dies despite Rescue efforts Maplewood to. A a Man standing id the town Center doused hint of with gasoline and set himself on fire Wilh a cigarette lighter thursday police said. Firefighters put out the names in seconds but Johnston b. Parsons 27, was pronounced dead at uie scene said police sgt. Ray Mickles. Mickles said a police officer noticed a fire at an intersection about 2 so . Thursday. He said theman was on fire for about 20 seconds before firefight ers arrived. Paper says nicaraguan aliens to be granted special status los Angeles a nicaraguans who fled tie sandinista regime and entered the United states Ille Gally will receive special stains allowing them to work m the United state indefinitely without fear of decor Lalion a newspaper reported Friday. The Reagan administration will Grant the special status soon the los Angela times reported citing unidentified Federal soured. The status is similar to thai Given to alien from Afghanistan Ethiopia and Poland who fled their Homeland to avoid strife or persecution. The move is i petted to draw criticism from , legislator. And others who believe dial citizens of Els Alvador who fled their strife torn country in few of their live also should be granted political Asylum flying mystery boxes Spur Coll to la bomb squad los Angeles a when two mysterious White Bones came floating out of the smoggy Iky on balloons nervous residents called out the bomb squad. But the experts found the styrofoam bom contained scientific instruments bunched is part of a study of a pollution in Southern California. The two boxes landed within an hour thursday in thew stake area and in the Crenshaw District said Detec Tive Mike Kriha of the police criminal conspiracy unit they were attached to two of 36 such balloons Cut aloft As part of an 11-Day study said Fred. Bomber or spokesman for the California air resource  dangling from the balloons measure temperature wind direction barometric pressure another indicators and radio the information to the ground Jet strikes Cement truck on runway no one injured los Angeles a a Mexicana Airliner taxiing to a hangar hit a Cement truck at los Angela International Airport causing minor damage to the plane s right Wing tip an Airport spokesman said Friday. The Boeing 747, flight 940 from Mexico City. Puerto vallarta and Mazatlan was empty of passengers when it hit the truck thursday afternoon. Apparently none of the mechanics on Board saw the Parve it truck that was being used in the construction of a new Temu Nal according to the Airport s operations superintendent Richard Davidson. Gop ploy against Gay lawmakers criticized Boston a a Republican party official is recruiting family oriented candidates to run against the nation s Only two openly Gay congressman both of whom Are Liberal democrats from Massachusetts. No volunteers had stepped Forward by thursday and the recruiting ploy appeared to have backfired by touch ing off a bipartisan Stream of criticism against the tactic. Frank w. Wing president of the Bristol county re publican committee touched off the juror earlier in the week in a press release and in of holed statements attacking democratic reps. Gerry Ludds and Barney Frank. Wing who Heads the stale s largest Republican county committee said he would make homosexuality an Issue in the 1988 election. He said Frank and Studds who woo re election last fall by huge margins Are poor representatives for their districts because they Are Gay. Parts of both congressmen s districts Are in Bristol county. There Are Only two congressmen in inc entire coun try who announced they Are Gay and both Ore from Bristol county Wing told the Boston Globe. That is not very Good representation for the people of Bristol county. It is More appropriate that they be the congressmen from san Francisco than fall River or new Bedford he said. He was quoted wednesday in the Providence . Journal bulletin newspaper As seeking an Ideal Republican candidate who is a family individual in a Hus band and wife relationship with children with solid political experience a Good track record and Catholic or protestant orientation that would be More in tune with the majority of the  later said he was misquoted and denied making religion an Issue. Frank who is jewish represents a District with a sizable jewish minority along with Many Urban ethnic catholics and suburban protestants asked Why he was nuking their Sci Al orientation an Issue. Wing said they made it an Issue. They have marched in Gay rights parades. They have made a pub Lic Issue out of ii. La sways their opinion somewhat on different  stale committee chairman Ray Shamie issued a statement disavowing Wing s comments. Frank Wing s statements do not reflect he Republican party s Standard for congressional candidates Shamie . Chester Atkins who also Chiric the democratic state committee said he thought Wing s remarks were ill considered and in bad  would Hope hat hat kind of bigotry and hat mongering is not reflective of anything that exists in the Republican parly and inc party s disavowal of Hii remarks clearly indicates that the party won t tolerate that kind of thing Atkins said in an interview from Washington. Studds a 15-year congressional Veteran would not comment on the affair according to press aide Sieve  sexual orientation became Public knowledge in 1983 when he was censured by the House far asexual relationship with a teen age Page a few years earlier. The next year Studds easily Defeated two opponents one of wham tried to make homosexuality an Issue in the democratic primary. Last year he won 63 percent of the Vole in a three Way final. Frank who revealed Las month in a newspaper interview that he is homosexual won 80 percent of the vote in 1986 but has not faced the voters since disclosing his sexual orientation. There arc More important issues to people than the Sec life of a Middle aged politician Frank said